"Road Runner Stage Lines will operate daily service starting in Durango and the other towns along the route are from south to north Mancos, Cortez, Dolores, Rico, Telluride, Placerville, Ridgway, Montrose and Delta," said Peter Tregillus, the programs developer for SUCAP.

Tregillus said the bus will make one round trip a day and a one-way ticket costs $40, but the price is pro-rated based on your destination. Seniors over 55 and students can get a 10 percent discount.

"For instance, if you are going from say Montrose to Telluride that would be $22," he said.

SUCAP estimated the program will cost it $400,000 a year to operate.

"The purpose of this is to make sure that people in the rural areas have ground transportation connection alternatives besides airfare and driving your own car," Tregillis said."That means you can hook up to the rest of the national Greyhound system. You can get to Denver [or to] Las Vegas...or any other place across the country."

He said SUCAP is working on a website where people can purchase tickets and expects it to be online in the coming weeks.

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CDOT said the purpose of the meeting is to get feedback on how to improve local and regional transit. The information from the meeting will be included in the department’s statewide transit plan, according to CDOT.

One of agency’s newer programs, set to launch early next year, is a bus service to connect the Front Range to the Western Slope.